December 2019

Womin-Jeka, (which is the local Wurundjeri indigenous phrase for welcome in my part of Australia) sisters and brothers and warm greetings from a hot Melbourne summer’s day. I trust all is well in your world in the lead up to Christmas. Today’s gospel text comes from Matthew 18:10 -14 where Jesus tells the parable of […]

Nga mihi maioha e hoa ma, rangimarie ki a koutou katoa. Greetings to you friends, may peace be with you all. The church calendar has just rolled over to the beginning of a new year with the start of Advent the other day. Advent; that time of hopeful waiting and expectancy, when we prepare to […]

Greetings from Leicester Today we find both a sobering and encouraging passage from Luke 21:12-19. Our reading comes within the context of Jesus’ warnings, of false messiahs, wars and rumours of wars, earthquakes, famines, and the destruction of the second Jerusalem temple, which happened in A.D 70, following its original destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 […]

Tena koutou katoa, nga mihi mahana ki a koutou. Warm greetings to all you’s out there, we see you. Today’s gospel text is Luke 19:11-28, the parable of the pounds. We have been reading through Luke’s gospel each day for a while now. Yesterday we read about the transformation of Zaccheus, including the redistribution of […]

Dia Dhuit ( Hello) Greetings friends, brothers & sisters on here. My offering for today comes from a background of a windy and cold island of Ireland today, as we transition into our Autumn/ Winter season. To our brothers and sisters in Australia, you are in my prayers, in respect to the Wildfires that you […]